Posted on 10/18/2011 10:58:48 PM PDT by Shalmaneser
John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, “The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.”
In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: “In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States.” The graduates cheered.
The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to “free white persons” of “good moral character.”
With publication today of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? this writer takes up what this portends. And while many on the left are enthusiastic about relegating the America of Eisenhower and JFK to a reactionary past, I concur with the late Clare Boothe Luce.
In this world, she said, there are optimists and pessimists.
“The pessimists are better informed.” “Why would they not vote for the Party of Government?”
What are the seemingly inevitable consequences of an America where whites are a shrinking minority?
First, the end of a national Republican Party that routinely gets 90 percent of its presidential votes from white America.
California is the harbinger of what is to come.
Carried by Richard Nixon in all five presidential elections when he was on the ticket and by Ronald Reagan all four times he ran, California, where whites are now a shrinking minority, is a state where the GOP faces extinction. John McCain’s share of the California vote was down to the Barry Goldwater level of 1964.
When Texas, where two-thirds of the newborns and half the schoolchildren are Hispanic, goes the way of California, it is the end for the GOP. Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, also critical to any victorious GOP coalition, are Hispanicizing as rapidly as Texas.
In every presidential election since Bush I in 1992, Hispanics have given 60-70 percent of their votes to the Democratic ticket.
For Hispanics, largely poor and working class, are beneficiaries of a cornucopia of government goods—from free education to food stamps to free health care. Few pay federal income taxes.
Why would they not vote for the Party of Government?
Second, the economic crisis of California, brought on by an outflow of taxpayers and a huge influx of tax consumers—i.e., millions of immigrants, legal and illegal—will be mirrored nationally.
For though the majority of immigrants and illegals comes to work, and work hard, most now come from Third World countries and do not bring the academic or professional skills of European-Americans.
Third, the decline in academic test scores here at home and in international competition is likely to continue, as more and more of the children taking those tests will be African-American and Hispanic. For though we have spent trillions over four decades, we have failed to close the racial gap in education. White and Asian children continue to outscore black and Hispanic children.
Can the test-score gap be closed? With the Hispanic illegitimacy rate at 51 percent and the black rate having risen to 71 percent, how can their children conceivably arrive at school ready to compete?
Should this continue for three decades, what will it mean for America if Asians and whites occupy the knowledge-industry jobs, while scores of millions of black and Hispanic workers are relegated to low-paying service-sector jobs? Will that make for social tranquility?
Affirmative action is one answer. But this is already causing a severe backlash, and the reason is obvious.
When affirmative action was first imposed, whites outnumbered blacks nine to one. The burden of reverse discrimination on the white community was thus relatively light. Today, however, not only blacks, but Hispanics and women—two-thirds of the entire population—qualify for affirmative action in hiring and school admissions.
And the burden falls almost entirely on white males, who are one-third of the country but three-fourths of the dead and wounded coming back from Afghanistan.
Sociologist Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone,” has also found that the greater the racial and ethnic diversity in a community, the less social capital there is—i.e., people in diverse settings are far less disposed to cooperate for social goals. They retreat into enclaves of their own kind.
Putnam found social capital at the lowest level he ever measured in Los Angeles, the most diverse community on earth. Yet, by 2042, the demography of every American city will approximate that of L.A.
What is happening to America is happening across the West.
Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found.
Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind—slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide—may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.
All you have to do is look at the employees walking in the door of any company which requires “knowledge workers”, or sitting in the classrooms of any public university, to know that this is about “class”, not “race”.
In our desire to avail ourselves of low-cost labor we “imported” several tens of millions of poorly educated, often non-English speaking people, often from rural communities where they lived under conditions of semi-feudal political corruption and racism, and it’s this background - not the color of their skin, that’s the source of “our problems”.
If you are thinking of abortion, "white" Americans have a substantially lower abortion rate that blacks or Hispanics (13/48/23 per 1000 women, respectively); if abortion was entirely eliminated the effect would be to increase the relative proportion of "non-white" Americans.
Well please keep me in that loop ‘cause I’d sure like to know about it.
I hear ya truthguy and I am a believer.
I have LONG maintained that America is two Nations masquerading as one. And, heresy for this Conservative it may be, but I see the United States splitting in two. I just don’t see any way around it. Neither side will be able to impose its will on the other, as it were.
As old as I am, I am not sure it will happen in my lifetime, but it sure is going to happen sooner than later. I mean, c’mon, who here really thinks there is going to be some kind of grand reconciliation. America has grown further apart, not closer together.
When it happens, just put me in the conservative section please.
Bttt
Exactly. The governments know full well that you get what you pay for, and they have been stealing money from the producers for a long time in order to subsidise the scroungers, and to make it profitable for them to breed while making it unprofitable/difficult for the producers to have families. But as with everything they do, the “unintended” consequences” are coming home to roost. Parasites will outnumber the producers.
You are right on the asians and yellow race. As for the white race ...do you remember when the white farmers were murdered in Africa? now they are starving..go figure
You and your brothers and sisters use the pill?
(1) Congress restricted citizenship to “free white persons” - not just one time, but several times in the 18C and 19C to keep out foreigners who were not white.
The ideal of the Founders was to allow Europeans who sympathized with the republican principles of America to immigrate to the United States.
(2) In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, free blacks (a small fraction of the population) could vote in several Southern states (Kentucky and North Carolina, I believe), but this was reversed not long thereafter.
(3) Women also had the right to vote in New Jersey.
(4) The Founders didn’t ban gay marriage either. It was a thought that simply never occurred to them.
(5) You are correct that blacks were considered citizens of states like Massachusetts in New England, but their citizenship status wasn’t recognized by the other states, who didn’t consider blacks to be Americans.
(6) The Dred Scott decision:
“On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them. . . .
It is true, every person, and every class and description of persons, who were at the time of the adoption of the Constitution recognized as citizens in the several States, became also citizens of this new political body; but none other; it was formed by them, and for them and their posterity, but for no one else . . .
They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery. . . . He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing, or supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of this opinion. . . .
Another of the early laws of which we have spoken, is the first militia law, which was passed in 1792, at the first session of the second Congress. The language of this law is equally plain and significant.... It directs that every “free able-bodied white male citizen” shall be enrolled in the militia. The word white is evidently used to exclude the African race, and the word citizen to exclude unnaturalized foreigners; the latter forming no part of the sovereignty, owing it no allegiance, and therefore under no obligation to defend it. The African race, however, born in the country, did owe allegiance to the Government, whether they were slave or free; but it is repudiated, and rejected from the duties and obligations of citizenship in marked language.
The third act to which we have alluded is even still more decisive; it was passed as late as 1813, (2 Stat., 809) and it provides: “That from and after the termination of the war in which the United States are now engaged with Great Britain, it shall not be lawful to employ, on board of any public or private vessels of the United States, any person or persons except citizens of the United States, or persons of color, natives of the United States.”
Here the line of distinction is drawn in express words. Persons of color, in the judgment of Congress, were not included in the word citizens, and they are described as another and different class of persons, and authorized to be employed, if born in the United States..”
America is anywhere from 9 to 11 nations. Check out this excellent new book:
http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations
Long live Dixie!
I am not quite sure why you quote the evil and immoral Dred Scott decision at length. Do you perhaps agree with it?
Two honorable justices issued dissenting opinions that were far more in line with the legal and historical facts and based on better legal reasoning. The decision was indeed overturned, though at by far the greatest cost of any reversed court decision.
The Dred Scott decision is a classic example of an attempt by a Supreme Court to settle a difficult political issue by putting it beyond the realm of politics. As with the other most egregious example, Roe v Wade, it had exactly the opposite effect, galvanizing the opposition.
Oh sweet. Thanks for the link! Looks fascinating.
Patriotism and Euro-centric pride have already been outlawed here in fact if not by law. We have every symptom Britain has, except an American Defence League.
Prior to being elected Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger commented on European culture as follows (I’m paraphrasing): How could we mourn a culture which took such an active hand in its own demise?”
Todays politicians all cater to the Hispanic vote because they see it as increasing. But a patriotic white conservative presidential candidate can still win big if he caters to whites more and increases the number of whites voting for him
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